Monitoring Network Connections

2. The method according to claim 1, wherein the communication occurs at an application layer, and wherein the trigger is in respect of the communication at the application layer.

3. The method according to claim 1, wherein the trigger is dependent on the available performance metrics for the communication.

4. The method according to claim 1, wherein the trigger is based on one or more of: a packet loss measure; a measure of delay; a measure of jitter; or a mean opinion score.

5. The method according to claim 1, wherein the network connection is a digital subscriber line.

6. The method according to claim 1, wherein sampling is of one or more parameters of the network connection.

7. The method according to claim 1, wherein sampling is of one or more network layer parameters.

8. The method according to claim 6, wherein the parameters include counts of one or more of code violations (CV); Errored Seconds (ES); or Severely Errored Seconds (SES).

9. The method according to claim 1, wherein the adapting of the sampling rate further includes adapting a set of sampled parameters.

12. An apparatus for monitoring a network connection at a first sampling rate to generate monitoring data for the network connection for determining a performance issue in a network, the apparatus comprising one or more computing devices configured to perform the method of claim 1.

13. A non-transitory computer readable storage medium storing a computer program element comprising computer program code to, when loaded into a computer system and executed thereon, cause the computer system to perform the method as claimed in claim 1.

17. The method of claim 16, wherein the buffer is a rolling first in first out (FIFO) buffer.

18. The method of claim 16, wherein the threshold for quality of communication via the network connection is unique to the network connection.

19. The method of claim 18, wherein the parameter is at least one of jitter, mean opinion score (MOS), or packet loss (PL).